Carpentry & Joinery

New build woes.

Anonymous user 09/03/2024 - 3.27 PM

Hi all. Looking for some independent not biased joinery advice. Moved into a new build Sept 21 and found many joinery issues (not a square corner in sight, issues with stairs etc) At a bit of an impass with the developer about a couple of issues with the stairs. We have our staircase, leading into landing with landing handrails both to left and right, doubling back onto the walls above the staircase, onto ½ newels. Me personally, my issues is both of my ½ newels over hang the wall slightly thus over hanging the stairs, it is only by 15mm on each side, but still a protruding piece of wood onto an area where people are walking up and down, my other issue is the handrail on one side doesn’t come square out of the ½ newel, it comes out at quite a tangent. Both the developer and the owners of the joinery firm they sub out to refuse to acknowledge a fault and say ‘there is no specification on where we have to put those ½ newels’ and the issue of the handrail coming out square is blamed on an tolerance with the wall, which to me is nonsense. I’ve used a square on the wall face and the newel face and they both track the same but the rail comes out at quite a jaunty angle. Initially I thought mine was the worst of the neighbours but next door, same house type, almost a quarter of her full ½ newel hangs over in the same spot, but only one side! 😫 Surely this cannot be correct? Hope I’ve explained it well enough! TIA